Turkey says can’t understand US silence over Khashoggi case

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan said Sunday that the US’ silence toward the killing in Istanbul of
Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by its allies in Riyadh is not
acceptable, and Ankara wants everything to be clarified about the case.

“I cannot understand America’s silence… We want
everything to be clarified because there is an atrocity, there is a
murder,” Erdogan told an interview with state-run TRT television. “The
Khashoggi murder is not an ordinary one.”

An investigative team led by the United Nations (UN) believes
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the prime suspect in the
state-sponsored assassination of Khashoggi in Turkey back in October 2018, an
adviser to Erdogan said Friday.

Yasin Aktay made the remark on Friday following a meeting with
the UN investigative team that is probing the brutal murder of Khashoggi inside
Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul last October.

The team, led by Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, arrived in Turkey on Monday to probe Khashoggi’s killing.